The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-05-20
SUMMARY or THR NEWS.
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The high licepsc bill passed both houses Of
the Pennsylvania Legislature.
Two men were suffocated by gas in the Ash.
land colliery near Pottsville, Pa.
The motion to auash the indictmcnt against
Jacob Sharpe has been denied by Judge Van
Brunt.
The greatest freshet since 1860 prevails at
Fairfield, Me-, and the water is rising rapidly.
The bulkhead at Somerset! 10 gone, taking with
It 10000 worth OF logs.
Gen. Aaron Fletcher Stevens died at
Nashus, N. H., Tuesday morning from a mil
ttary difficulty arising from q wound received
In the battle before Petersburg.
Capt. Isaac II. Houghton, bookkeeper for
Soulc & Bradley, Of Boston, left the city more
than a week ago. 1t is believed he has gone
to Canada. The amount of his shortage is
placed at $1,000.
Friday Rev. A. Morrison, who stole q horse
and buggy in Baltimore on the 9Th, was sen.
fenced to ten years in the pcniteniary at hard
labor. He was formerly q Methodist minister.
Liquor was the cause Of his downfall.
Fire Tuesday morning DESTROYED Meade,
Mason n Co.'s furniture factory at Lebanon,
N. II. The fire worked south, burning every
thing in that direction. The entire loss Is cs.
timsted ut 100000, with an insurance Of
$4,000.
Tuesday afternoon the jury In the case Of
w. T. Lavellc, a Panhandle railroad brake
man, on trial for robbing freight cars, brought
in a verdict Of guilty. j. G. Dunlap, another
of the alleged thieves, was then called up for
trial and plead guilty.
The twelve Irish constables who resigned
their offices because they were compelled to
carry out cvic.ions, and who arrived in New
York last week, Tuesday announced their In
tcntion of becoming citizens Of the United
States by filing their applications In the court
of common pleas.
On Sunday a monstrous temperance meet
ing was held at Pittsburg for the purpose of
organizing a national movement throughout
the country. Bishops Ireland, spaulding and
Col. Rend, of Chicago, addressed the meet
ing. Rev. j. NJ. Clcary. president Of the Cath
Ollie Total Abstinence Union OF America,
| preached the sermon.
Mrs. Margaret Ernst, an old lady aged
scvcnty-four, was found early Tuesday morn.
Ing in front of her house with her hands and
feet bound with ropes. and a rope around he,
neck. She had deem choked to death during
the night, and been robbed. She made u will
aoout two years ago, and notified Her attor.
ney that she desired to change 1t. The cor.
oner and police see In this fact the motive for
the crime.
A joint meeting of the coke workers of the
Miners Amalgamated association and Knights
of Labor was held at Eycrson, Pa, on Tues.
day. 1t was decided to Immediately suspend
work until the demands for an advance asked
for last Saturday arc granted. The meeting
was Il representative one and the strike will
extend to all the works in the Conncllsvllle
region. About 1900 mcn will be affected
and a long and bitter struggle is anticipated.
A terrible accident occurred at the Edgar
Thompson steel works at Braddock, Pa, on
iucs"ay uiSHt, hVc iucn pcins ourheu W
death. Furnace L was blown out recently,
and u gang of men were on Tuesday put to
work clearing 1t out. An arch hal formed,
composed of coke, limestone, and other ma
~t.rials, which was still Mt a rcd heat. While
the men were Mt work, the arch gave way. A
few of the men escaped, bat others were
knocked down and cooked beneath the mass,
tim ,D,nnfrc nf Zen I,ui,., <o1yo,, f.n,,, <In
debris.